Pentest Box Tools

Note: Below are the only tools which are installed by default in PentestBox. But you can also install other tools through ToolsManager. To know the list of tools which can be installed through ToolsManager, visit modules.pentestbox.org .

Welcome to the PentestBox Tool List Website!Here you will find a list of the tools which are inside PentestBox and how to use them.
You can see the list of a particular category using the left sidebar.

Let's say you want to use SQLMap, you can see it's description below on the Web Application Scanner Section and you will find something like given below
The console above with sqlmap in it tells that if you need to use SQLmap then sqlmap is the alias for it.
If you are not aware about the tool and it's functions then type something like sqlmap -h on console, it will display all the possible functions of that tool, sqlmap in our case.

To keep everything in short, there's only the aliases of a tool below their name.
I hope you will enjoy using PentestBox :)

View our demo video below to know more about usage of PentestBox.

Web Vulnerability Scanners

Burp Suite - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Author: PortsWigger

Commix - Commix (short for [comm]and [i]njection e[x]ploiter) has a simple environment and it can be used, from web developers, penetration testers or even security researchers to test web applications with the view to find bugs, errors or vulnerabilities related to command injection attacks.
Copyright (c) 2015 Anastasios Stasinopoulos (@ancst)

fimap - fimap is a little python tool which can find, prepare, audit, exploit and even google automaticly for local and remote file inclusion bugs in webapps. fimap should be something like sqlmap just for LFI/RFI bugs instead of sql injection. It's currently under heavy development but it's usable.
Author: Iman Karim
License: GPLv2

Golismero - GoLismero is an open source framework for security testing. It's currently geared towards web security, but it can easily be expanded to other kinds of scans.License: GPLv2
Author: Daniel García , Mario Vilas, Raúl Requero
License: GPLv2

SqlMap - sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.
Author: Bernardo Damele Assumpcao Guimaraes, Miroslav Stampar
License: GPLv2

Vega - Vega is a free and open source scanner and testing platform to test the security of web applications. Vega can help you find and validate SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, and other vulnerabilities. It is written in Java, GUI based, and runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Author: Subgraph
License: Eclipse Public License 1.0

Wpscan - WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan remote WordPress installations to find security issues.
Author: The WPScan Team
License: WPScan Public Source License

Yasuo - Yasuo is a ruby script that scans for vulnerable 3rd-party web applications. While working on a network security assessment (internal, external, redteam gigs etc.), we often come across vulnerable 3rd-party web applications or web front-ends that allow us to compromise the remote server by exploiting publicly known vulnerabilities. Some of the common & favorite applications are Apache Tomcat administrative interface, JBoss jmx-console, Hudson Jenkins and so on.
License: GPLv3

Zaproxy - The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.
Author: Simon Bennetts

Web Applications Proxies

Burp Suite - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Author: Portswigger

Zaproxy - The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.
Author: Simon Bennetts

CMS Vulnerability Scanners

CMSmap - CMSmap is a python open source CMS scanner that automates the process of detecting security flaws of the most popular CMSs. The main purpose of CMSmap is to integrate common vulnerabilities for different types of CMSs in a single tool.
Author: Dionach
License: GPLv3

droopescan - A plugin-based scanner that aids security researchers in identifying issues with several CMS:

Drupal.

SilverStripe

Wordpress

Author: Pedro Worcel
License: GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

OWASP Joomla Vulnerability Scanner - Joomla! is probably the most widely-used CMS out there due to its flexibility, user-friendlinesss, extensibility to name a few.So, watching its vulnerabilities and adding such vulnerabilities as KB to Joomla scanner takes ongoing activity.It will help web developers and web masters to help identify possible security weaknesses on their deployed Joomla! sites. No web security scanner is dedicated only one CMS.
Author: Aung Khant

Wpscan - WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan remote WordPress installations to find security issues.
Author: The WPScan Team
License: WPScan Public Source License

Web Crawlers

Burp Suite - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Author: Portswigger

Information Gathering

Angry IP Scanner - Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features. It is widely used by network administrators and just curious users around the world, including large and small enterprises, banks, and government agencies.
Author: Anton Keks
License: GPLv2

Nmap - Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).
Author: Fyodor
License: GPLv2
Note: In order to use Nmap, you need to first install WinPcap Packet capturing library which can be downloded from Winpcap.org.

SnmpWalk - SnmpWalk allows you to detect a set of variables that are available for reading on a certain device. You can obtain a full list or just part. By analyzing the results of a network device scan obtained with SnmpWalk you can develop a list of supported MIBs and, in this way, obtain full descriptions of variables and possible values.
Author: SnmpSoft Company

SpiderFoot - SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence automation tool. Its goal is to automate the process of gathering intelligence about a given target, which may be an IP address, domain name, hostname or network subnet.SpiderFoot can be used offensively, i.e. as part of a black-box penetration test to gather information about the target or defensively to identify what information your organisation is freely providing for attackers to use against you.
Author: Steve Micallef
License: GPLv2

TestSSLServer - TestSSLServer is a simple command-line tool which contacts a SSL/TLS server (name and port are given as parameters) and obtains some information from it.
Author: Thomas Pornin

SSlStrip - It will transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links. It also supports modes for supplying a favicon which looks like a lock icon, selective logging, and session denial.
Author: Moxie Marlinspike
License: GPLv3

SSLyze - SSLyze is a Python tool that can analyze the SSL configuration of a server by connecting to it. It is designed to be fast and comprehensive, and should help organizations and testers identify misconfigurations affecting their SSL servers.
License: GPLv2

Sublist3r - Sublist3r is python tool that is designed to enumerate subdomains of websites using search engines. It helps penetration testers and bug hunters collect and gather subdomains for the domain they are targeting. Sublist3r currently supports the following search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, and Ask. More search engines may be added in the future. Sublist3r also gathers subdomains using Netcraft and DNSdumpster.
License: GPLv2
Author: Ahmed Aboul-Ela

Subbrute - SubBrute is a community driven project with the goal of creating the fastest, and most accurate subdomain enumeration tool. Some of the magic behind SubBrute is that it uses open resolvers as a kind of proxy to circumvent DNS rate-limiting. This design also provides a layer of anonymity, as SubBrute does not send traffic directly to the target's name servers.
Author: Mike Brooks
License: GPLv3

Tekdefense-Automater - Automater is a URL/Domain, IP Address, and Md5 Hash OSINT tool aimed at making the analysis process easier for intrusion Analysts. Given a target (URL, IP, or HASH) or a file full of targets Automater will return relevant results from sources like the following: IPvoid.com, Robtex.com, Fortiguard.com, unshorten.me, Urlvoid.com, Labs.alienvault.com, ThreatExpert, VxVault, and VirusTotal.
Author: TekDefense.com

Wireshark - Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe.
Author: Gerald Combs and contributors
License: GPLv2

Exploitation Tools

Beef Project - BeEF is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser.
Author: Wade Alcorn
License: GPLv2

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting Windows/Active Directory environments.
Thanks to Thomas for the compiled version.
Author: byt3bl33d3r

Metasploit Framework - World's most used penetration testing software.
Author: Rapid7
License: BSD 3-clause License
Please note there are two version of PentestBox, one with Metasploit and other one with Metasploit. Download Metasploit variant if not done from here.

SqlMap - sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.
Author: Bernardo Damele Assumpcao Guimaraes, Miroslav Stampar
License: GPLv2

Password Attacks

Burp Suite - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

LaZagne - The LaZagne project is an open source application used to retrieve lots of passwords stored on a local computer. Each software stores its passwords using different techniques (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.). This tool has been developed for the purpose of finding these passwords for the most commonly-used software. At this moment, it supports 22 Programs on Microsoft Windows and 12 on a Linux/Unix-Like OS.
Author: AlessandroZ
License: GPLv3

John the Ripper - John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.
License: GPLv2

Patator - Patator was written out of frustration from using Hydra, Medusa, Ncrack, Metasploit modules and Nmap NSE scripts for password guessing attacks. I opted for a different approach in order to not create yet another brute-forcing tool and avoid repeating the same shortcomings. Patator is a multi-threaded tool written in Python, that strives to be more reliable and flexible than his fellow predecessors.
Author: Sebastien MACKE
License: GPLv2

RainbowCrack - RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. It crack hashes with rainbow tables.RainbowCrack uses time-memory tradeoff algorithm to crack hashes. It differs from brute force hash crackers.A brute force hash cracker generate all possible plaintexts and compute the corresponding hashes on the fly, then compare the hashes with the hash to be cracked. Once a match is found, the plaintext is found. If all possible plaintexts are tested and no match is found, the plaintext is not found. With this type of hash cracking, all intermediate computation results are discarded.
Author: RainbowCrack Project

THC Hydra - Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. It is very fast and flexible, and new modules are easy to add. This tool makes it possible for researchers and security consultants to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access to a system remotely.
Please note that PentestBox contains compiled version of THC-Hydra which is taken fromhere.
Author: Van Hauser, Roland Kessler
License: GPLv3

Zaproxy - The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.
Author: Simon Bennetts

Android Security

AndroBugs Framework - AndroBugs Framework is an Android vulnerability analysis system that helps developers or hackers find potential security vulnerabilities in Android applications. No splendid GUI interface, but the most efficient (less than 2 minutes per scan in average) and more accurate.
Author: AndroBugs
Author: GPLv3

Androwarn - Androwarn is a tool whose main aim is to detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviours developped by an Android application.
Author: Thomas D
License: GPLv3

ApkTool - A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications; it makes possible to debug smali code step by step. Also it makes working with an app easier because of project-like file structure and automation of some repetitive tasks like building apk, etc.
Author: Connor Tumbleson, Ryszard Wiśniewski
License: Apache v2.0

JD-GUI - JD-GUI is a standalone graphical utility that displays Java source codes of “.class” files. You can browse the reconstructed source code with the JD-GUI for instant access to methods and fields.
License: Free for Non-Commercial Use

Reverse Engineering

ApkTool - A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications; it makes possible to debug smali code step by step. Also it makes working with an app easier because of project-like file structure and automation of some repetitive tasks like building apk, etc.
Author: Connor Tumbleson, Ryszard Wiśniewski
License: Apache v2.0

JD-GUI - JD-GUI is a standalone graphical utility that displays Java source codes of “.class” files. You can browse the reconstructed source code with the JD-GUI for instant access to methods and fields.
Author: Emmanuel Dupuy
License: Free for Non-Commercial Use

Radare2 - r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare in order to provide a set of libraries and tools to work with binary files.Radare project started as a forensics tool, an scriptable commandline hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers, ..
License: GPLv3
To open Webserver please follow below.

cmd.exe

C:\PentestBox\bin\ReverseEngineering\radare2

$radare2.exe -c=H rax2.exe

Smali/Baksmali - smali/baksmali is an assembler/disassembler for the dex format used by dalvik, Android's Java VM implementation. The syntax is loosely based on Jasmin's/dedexer's syntax, and supports the full functionality of the dex format (annotations, debug info, line info, etc.)
You can access smali and baksmali by typing smali and baksmaliLicense: BSD

Stress Testing

THC-SSL-DOS - The THC-SSL-DOS tool is a Proof Of Concept tool to disclose fishy security in SSL. It works great if the server supports SSL Renegotiation. It still works if SSL Renegotiation is not supported but requires some modifications and more bots before an effect can be seen.
Author: The Hackers Choice
License: GPLv2

Sniffing

Burp Suite - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

DNSChef - DNSChef is a highly configurable DNS proxy for Penetration Testers and Malware Analysts. A DNS proxy (aka “Fake DNS”) is a tool used for application network traffic analysis among other uses. For example, a DNS proxy can be used to fake requests for “badguy.com” to point to a local machine for termination or interception instead of a real host somewhere on the Internet.
Author: thesprawl
License: GPLv3

Ettercap - Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols and includes many features for network and host analysis.
Author: Alberto Ornaghi (ALoR), Marco Valleri (NaGA), Emilio Escobar (exfil), Eric Milam (J0hnnyBrav0)
License: GPLv2

ngrep - ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular expressions to match against data payloads of packets.

Network Miner - NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network. NetworkMiner can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis and to regenerate/reassemble transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files.
Author: NETRESEC

SSlStrip - It will transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links. It also supports modes for supplying a favicon which looks like a lock icon, selective logging, and session denial.
Author: Moxie Marlinspike
License: GPLv3

WinDump - WinDump is the Windows version of tcpdump, the command line network analyzer for UNIX. WinDump is fully compatible with tcpdump and can be used to watch, diagnose and save to disk network traffic according to various complex rules.
License: BSD

Wireshark - Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe.
Author: Gerald Combs and contributors
License: GPLv2

Zaproxy - The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.
Author: Simon Bennetts

Forensic Tools

Bulk Extractor - bulk_extractor is a computer forensics tool that scans a disk image, a file, or a directory of files and extracts useful information without parsing the file system or file system structures. The results can be easily inspected, parsed, or processed with automated tools. bulk_extractor also created a histograms of features that it finds, as features that are more common tend to be more important. The program can be used for law enforcement, defense, intelligence, and cyber-investigation applications.
Author: Simson L. Garfinkel
License: GPLv2

CapTipper - CapTipper is a python tool to analyze, explore and revive HTTP malicious traffic. CapTipper sets up a web server that acts exactly as the server in the PCAP file, and contains internal tools, with a powerful interactive console, for analysis and inspection of the hosts, objects and conversations found.
Author: Omri Herscovici
License: GPLv3

DumpZilla - Dumpzilla application is developed in Python 3.x and has as purpose extract all forensic interesting information of Firefox, Iceweasel and Seamonkey browsers to be analyzed. Due to its Python 3.x developement, might not work properly in old Python versions, mainly with certain characters. Works under Unix and Windows 32/64 bits systems. Works in command line interface, so information dumps could be redirected by pipes with tools such as grep, awk, cut, sed…
License: GPLv3

Loki - Scanner for Simple Indicators of Compromise. Detection is based on four detection methods:

Make PDF Tools - make-pdf-javascript.py allows one to create a simple PDF document with embedded JavaScript that will execute upon opening of the PDF document. It’s essentially glue-code for the mPDF.py module which contains a class with methods to create headers, indirect objects, stream objects, trailers and XREFs.
Author: /Didier Stevens

Origami - Origami is a Ruby framework for manipulating PDF documents. It features a PDF compliant parser and allows to analyze, modify or create malicious PDF files. Although it may be use for multiple purposes, Origami is primarily intended as a security tool. As such, it does not focus on the graphics contents of a document and does not include a PDF renderer.
License: GPL

PDF Parser - This tool will parse a PDF document to identify the fundamental elements used in the analyzed file. It will not render a PDF document.
Author: Didier Stevens

pdfid - This tool is not a PDF parser, but it will scan a file to look for certain PDF keywords, allowing you to identify PDF documents that contain (for example) JavaScript or execute an action when opened. PDFiD will also handle name obfuscation.
Author: Didier Stevens

PeePDF - peepdf is a Python tool to explore PDF files in order to find out if the file can be harmful or not. The aim of this tool is to provide all the necessary components that a security researcher could need in a PDF analysis without using 3 or 4 tools to make all the tasks. With peepdf it’s possible to see all the objects in the document showing the suspicious elements, supports the most used filters and encodings, it can parse different versions of a file, object streams and encrypted files.
Author: Jose Miguel Esparza
License: GPLv3

RAT Decoders - This Repo will hold a collection of Python Scripts that will extract and decode the configuration settings from common rats.
Author: kevthehermit
To use this please go to it's directory which is located at pentestbox_directory/bin/ForensicTools/RATDecoders and then follow usage guide from it's website.

rekall - The Rekall Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated but offer visibilty into the runtime state of the system.
Author: Google
License: GPLv2

Volatility - The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated but offer visibilty into the runtime state of the system. The framework is intended to introduce people to the techniques and complexities associated with extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory samples and provide a platform for further work into this exciting area of research.
Author: Volatile Foundation
License: GPLv3

Wireless Attacks

Aircrack-ng -Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools.
Author: Thomas d’Otreppe, Original work: Christophe Devine
License: GPLv2

Text Editors

To make PenetestBox more awesome, I have added Atom and vim as its text editors. After opening Atom it will spilt up the screen with Atom on one side and your terminal on the other side, while vim runs on the same tab. Atom splitting is done to make reporting much more easier by giving access to console and editor on same screen.

Also to make PentestBox more awesome we have also included HTTPie, HTTPie is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized output. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers.

Browser

PentestBox also contains a modified version of Mozilla Firefox with all the security addons pre installed in it. To see all the addons which are pre installed in it, click here

Disclaimer

All the tools contained in PentestBox belong to their individual developers whose names are mentioned above along their respective tools. All credits to those tools go to their respective developers.
All the tools are maintained inside the bin folder, no tool/product has been modified unless specified in the product description above.
Tools are directly fetched from the respective Github repositories and/or their product websites. All Copyright Notice, License file, Disclaimer files are maintained in
their respective folder if given on their products site/pages.

The developer assumes no liability and is not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this program. Do not use it for illegal purposes!